Author: Gary McKenzie

Social media has been here for a while and it is not going away. I love it, mostly. There are bad jokes and old music clips as well as memories of sporting legends which...

Magna Grecia won the 2000 Guineas. He was, probably, the best horse on the day but some will question the result due to two of the first three finishers running on one side of...

Winx is a record breaking racehorse. She has not been beaten since coming second in the Australian Oaks in April 2015. Since that defeat she has won thirty three consecutive races including twenty five...

I was only a kid when Red Rum won back to back Grand Nationals. And over the years horses as good as West Tip, Corbiere, and Hedgehunter have tried, and failed, to double up....

It does take me a while to completely clear my head of Cheltenham matters and were it not for the Grand National meeting, I could still be thinking about Prestbury Park well into May....

I wonder if Willie Mullins will be playing the Etta James classic “At Last” this weekend? The legendary trainer had saddled six runners up in the Gold Cup before yesterday and, with three of...

It is a decade since the likes of Denman and Kauto Star were winning Gold Cups for Paul Nicholls. And while he has still been winning plenty of races, he has possibly been short of a...

He was a horse who ran in the Queen Mother Champion Chase five times, coming third twice, and, on a special day in 2017, winning the big one his talent so richly deserved. Special...

Races billed as “Trials” can often disappoint and to have a whole day described as Trials Day is possibly setting yourself up for a fall. But the watching crowd at Cheltenham last Saturday can...